Watts v. Pere Marquette Railroad Co.

This suit was brought under the Federal employers’ liability act (35 U. S. Stat. p. 65), for a dependent, to recover damages occasioned by the death of George A. Wilson, a section hand in the employ of defendant company. Mr. Wilson was a section workman of long experience and, the morning of January 12, 1921, was engaged with two other section men in distributing tie plates from a hand-car in a curve cut, when a special freight train came into the cut and struck the hand-car just as the workmen had partly removed it from the track and as they jumped away, and Mr. Wilson who ran in the…